Law of Inverse Recoil: Difference between revisions

* The [[Humongous Mecha|Jagd Mirage]]'s main caliber, ''Twin Towers'' [[Wave Motion Gun|buster launchers]] in [[The Five Star Stories]] neatly avert the trope. ''Jagd'', a heavy artillery support MH, generally needed to properly deploy before firing, [[Multi-Armed and Dangerous|releasing numerous additional arms and legs]] to anchor itself in the ground, brace its own structure and deploy special shields to protect itself from the enormous recoil and backblast of its own guns. It was also mentioned that it was almost completely defenseless in the deployed mode, and thus was always accompanied by a squad of other mechas [[Awesome but Impractical|for protection]]. Due to its impractical nature, [[Super Prototype|only two]] were ever built.

* Played with in ''Teki wa Kaizoku''; the main character jerks his wrists whenever he fires his laser gun like it's recoiling even though laser weapons shouldn't, but immediately after we first see him fire it he's called on that and he admits that pretending his gun recoils is just a hobby of his. Sure enough, if you pay attention in future fight scenes he keeps doing it but nobody else does.

* In ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'', the Laevatein (the [[Mid-Season Upgrade]] to the Arbalest) is equipped with a giant gun called a demolition cannon; when it its Howitzer Mode, the recoil is so great that the Laevatein ''will'' be knocked off its feet unless the physics-defying Lambda Driver is active.

* In ''[[Desert Punk (manga)|Desert Punk]]'', Kanta's preteen sidekick Kosuna complains almost literally that her small pistol is not cool enough to match her self-persona. Kanta then takes her to an arms dealer, who first forces her to go dig holes for several hours before allowing her to try out an assault rifle. While she exhibits accuracy that astonishes Kanta and the arms dealer, she brings the gun back admitting that firing it is physically punishing for a girl her size and that she'd be completely ineffective in combat with it.